List of Famous people born on January 1st

Guillaume Brac is a French film director from Paris. He has directed films such as Tonnerre, July Tales, Treasure Island, and À L'abordage.

Ayaka Hosoda (細田采花) is a Japanese figure skater.

Christine Spengler is a French war photographer. Since 1970, she has photographed and reported on conflicts, primarily from the point of view of the victims of war.

Joe Burke was an Irish musician. He was noted for being a pre-eminent button accordion player, recording and performing traditional music for over half a century.

Hans-Joachim Klein is a former member of the German left-wing militant group Revolutionary Cells (RZ). His nom de guerre was "Angie". In 1975, Klein participated in an attack on OPEC headquarters in Vienna organized by the international terrorist "Carlos the Jackal", in which he was seriously injured. He publicly renounced political violence two years later. After decades in hiding, he was arrested in 1998, prosecuted for his role in the OPEC attack, and sentenced to nine years' imprisonment. He was paroled in 2003.

Heinz Patzelt is an Austrian lawyer. He has been Secretary General of Amnesty International in Austria since 1998.